In the Heat of the Night - Episode Quotes

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	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Bubba's Baby Sgt. V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner: You got a right to keep your mouth shut. You say anything, we gonna hang it on ya later.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - A Loss of Innocence Officer Parker Williams: Bubba, it's always down in the basement. Lt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: What is always in the basement? Officer Parker Williams: The crazy mother, the deformed child, the head in the hatbox. You name it, Bubba, it's always down in the basement!
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - A Loss of Innocence Officer Parker Williams: Uh, well, Chief... if you heard somethin' that you didn't wanna hear, then I prob'ly didn't say it.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - My Name is Hank Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: Now, you take a squirrel. He may seem to run out to the end of a limb that goes nowhere, that tapers off into nothin'. But he in't there. He ran out a foot or two along that limb and then he doubled back on the blind side and he really never left the place where you first saw him. Think about that. Lt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: I don' wanna.
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Walkout Sgt. V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner: People gettin' their throat sliced right and left, snowin' in Mississippi, what the hell's goin' on here, Virgil?
	Unknown Episode: Parker: I got a call from Randy Calhoun. Bill Gillespie: Tell him we're closed. Parker: It's about a murder. Bill Gillespie: Did he commit it? Parker: I don't think so. I forgot to ask. Bill Gillespie: Well, that might have been an important question.
	Unknown Episode: Bill Gillespie: I'll stay here and round up a posse, in case I feel the need to cut anybody off at the pass.
	Unknown Episode: J.J. Jeffson: Well, you know what the Lord says: "Go forth and multiply, and fill the earth." Bill Gillespie: But I don't think he meant for you to do that by yourself.
	Unknown Episode: Virgil Tibbs: I want to like you people; and I want you people to like me. But there can be no liking without respect, and until there is that respect you will call me MISTER Tibbs!
	Unknown Episode: Virgil Tibbs: You know Bubba had to hit him. Jamison: Like I always say, Bubba has all the fun around here!
	Unknown Episode: Parker: Never fear, Parker is here.
	Unknown Episode: Bill Gillespie: Yeah, the last time I caught you using my phone in here, the emergency was about some woman who was driving your car dressed in black lace underwear. Bubba Skinner: I wish there was some things you'd forget Chief.
	Unknown Episode: Virgil Tibbs: Ever since that woman came to town, Bubba [sigh]... I think he's in over his head. She's a beautiful, sophisticated young woman and Bubba, well... Althea Tibbs: You can't understand what she sees in him. Virgil Tibbs: In a word, No. Althea Tibbs: Let me try to explain this to you Virgil. Bubba is a HUNK. He's manly, he's strong, he's considerate and just rippling with muscles. Virgil Tibbs: Althea, Althea, you're a married woman. Althea Tibbs: Hey I'm married, I'm not blind. Virgil Tibbs: Well, if Bubba's a hunk, what does that make me?